Context Management In Virtual Home Environment Systems

The emerging 3rd generation services are provided through various types of networks and terminals. Roaming users rely on new kinds of wireless networks and terminals to offer mobility and make services available everywhere. The users' requirement for continuous access to personalized services from any place, transparently and independently of the underlying network technology and the terminal or point of access, was satisfied by the first VHE prototypes. The challenge in service engineering is now to make these services smarter by adding context management capabilities to them. In this paper we propose an enhanced framework for efficient context management in a VHE environment.